Wesleyan University Magazine

2002 Issue 3July 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Wesleyan Astronomers Find Possible New Cradle for Planets

In the era of the Hubble Space Telescope, one of the most significant of recent discoveries in astronomy originated with Wesleyan undergraduates working with the small, 24-inch telescope in the Van Vleck Observatory. At a June 19 press conference in Washington, D.C., Professor of Astronomy …

2002 Issue 3July 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Writer’s Life Recalled, Horgan House Is Dedicated

The Russell family’s former carriage house behind their High Street mansion became a cultural center for Wesleyan in 1962, when Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Horgan, who joined the faculty as director of the former…

2002 Issue 3July 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Experiments in Economics

The scene may not be as frenzied as the pit of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, but students in a class taught by Assistant Professor of Economics Tanya Rosenblat are actively trading—in pens. Rosenblat is handi…

2002 Issue 3July 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Wesleyan Parent Is Charter Member, Alumni-Elected Trustees Join Board

The annual alumni election of trustees produced three new board members: Mike McKenna ’73, David Hill ’86, and Oyeshola Olatoye ’96. McKenna is president and chief executive officer of Marsteller Advertising, a …

2002 Issue 3July 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Image Maker

Since his childhood, Professor of Art J. Seeley has had one continuing quest: to find new and creative ways to print realistic images in ink on paper. “My mother recalled that I was working with potato prints and rubber …

2002 Issue 3July 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Fire Fights

THE HELICOPTER CIRCLES THE FIRE in the Sky Lakes Wilderness area of Oregon. The "spotter" on board identifies a break in the trees where firefighters can rappel down. With the side doors open, the roar of the helicopter …

2002 Issue 3July 4, 2002May 5, 2014

The Art and Craft of Location

OCCASIONALLY A NIGHT'S WORTH OF RAIN will come through Los Angeles and clear away the smog. It's then possible to see Downtown from Hollywood, the mountains from Downtown. Homes in the hills are visible for the first tim…

2002 Issue 3July 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Playing Politics

YOU MIGHT THINK THAT BRADLEY WHITFORD ’81, award-winning actor on NBC’s The West Wing, could take a lunch break that lasted as long as he wanted. But his beeper goes off and immediately he’s due back on the set, despite…

2002 Issue 3July 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Celluloid’s Successor

AS AN ARTIST WORKING ON THE EXPERIMENTAL EDGE OF HIS MEDIUM, Paul Kaiser '78 challenges people. His medium—computer-generated "virtual film"—is hot in cinema (think Toy Story or Spider-Man), but his work is as far from t…

2002 Issue 2April 4, 2002May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: THE SINGING COLLEGE

Long before our time, Wesleyan was sometimes known as "The Singing College." This sobriquet reflected the many musical pastimes of Wesleyan students, from the Speirachordeon Band of the late 1830s, to the informal colleg…